I finally have XOrg and KDE running on my laptop, running 7.2-release. However I have one significant problem now, XOrg starts with numlock on, and I cannot seem to disable it. Being as this is a laptop keyboard, this turns several important keys into numbers.

What do I need to do to correct this? I set KDE to turn the num lock off when it starts but that doesn't seem to work. I see that when X is first loading, before KDE actually starts up, the num lock is turned on at that point.

It's more likely that KDE is controlling it as Carpetsmoker has suggested.

I would have expected the same, but that is not the case. If I run xinit without an .xinit.rc file (so that no desktop environment starts) I have the same problem with num lock turning itself on.

Any other ideas? I have set KDE to turn it off when it starts, but it doesn't work. I would be more than happy to just disable num lock entirely as this is a laptop keyboard, but I can't find a way to do that.